zephyr/lib/posix/getopt
Gerard Marull-Paretas 79e6b0e0f6 includes: prefer <zephyr/kernel.h> over <zephyr/zephyr.h>
As of today <zephyr/zephyr.h> is 100% equivalent to <zephyr/kernel.h>.
This patch proposes to then include <zephyr/kernel.h> instead of
<zephyr/zephyr.h> since it is more clear that you are including the
Kernel APIs and (probably) nothing else. <zephyr/zephyr.h> sounds like a
catch-all header that may be confusing. Most applications need to
include a bunch of other things to compile, e.g. driver headers or
subsystem headers like BT, logging, etc.

The idea of a catch-all header in Zephyr is probably not feasible
anyway. Reason is that Zephyr is not a library, like it could be for
example `libpython`. Zephyr provides many utilities nowadays: a kernel,
drivers, subsystems, etc and things will likely grow. A catch-all header
would be massive, difficult to keep up-to-date. It is also likely that
an application will only build a small subset. Note that subsystem-level
headers may use a catch-all approach to make things easier, though.

NOTE: This patch is **NOT** removing the header, just removing its usage
in-tree. I'd advocate for its deprecation (add a #warning on it), but I
understand many people will have concerns.

Signed-off-by: Gerard Marull-Paretas <gerard.marull@nordicsemi.no>
2022-09-05 16:31:47 +02:00
..
CMakeLists.txt
Kconfig
README
getopt.c lib: migrate includes to <zephyr/...> 2022-05-06 19:58:09 +02:00
getopt.h includes: prefer <zephyr/kernel.h> over <zephyr/zephyr.h> 2022-09-05 16:31:47 +02:00
getopt_common.c includes: prefer <zephyr/kernel.h> over <zephyr/zephyr.h> 2022-09-05 16:31:47 +02:00
getopt_common.h
getopt_long.c posix: getopt: Set variable only if used 2022-08-19 12:07:45 +02:00

README

[GetOpt]
#####################

Origin:
   [Lattera FreeBSD]
   [https://github.com/lattera/freebsd/blob/master/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.c]

Status:
   [So far Zephyr samples were using getopt implementation from: argtable3.c.]

Purpose:
   [Shell users would like to parse options passed to the command handler.]

Description:
   [This library is going to be used by the shell module. Some shell users
   are not satisfied with subcommands alone and need to use the options for
   commands as well. A library is needed that allows the developer to parse
   the arguments string, looking for supported options. Typically, this task
   is accomplished by the getopt function.

   For this purpose I decided to port the getopt library available
   in the FreeBSD project. I had to modify it so that it could be used
   by all instances of the shell at the same time.

   Originally this function was using global variables which were defining
   its state. In my implementation I put those variables in a structure
   and a pointer to that structure is passed as an additional parameter
   to getopt function. In proposed implementation each shell backend has its
   own getopt function state structure which it uses.

   This module is intended to be used inside the shell command handler
   by the abstraction layer "SHELL_GETOPT". For example:
   while ((char c = shell_getopt(shell, argc, argv, "abhc:")) != -1) {
      /* some code */
   }
   ]

Dependencies:
   [This package does not depend on any other component.

   Zephyr project will only need this component if the user configures a shell
   module: SHELL_GETOPT.]

URL:
   [https://github.com/lattera/freebsd]

commit:
   [324e4c082c14aebf00f8dbee0fb7ad285393756a]

Maintained-by:
   [External]

License:
   [BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License]

License Link:
   [BSD 3-Clause used in getopt: https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause.html]
   [Project license: https://github.com/lattera/freebsd/blob/master/COPYRIGHT]